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My (Stanley) Cup Runneth Over: Ronnie & Donnie, Sticking It to Us? [1]

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Date: 2024-06-22  

Near Florida’s tip, fans of the NHL Panthers may well be losing sleep. By scores of 8-1, 5-3, and now 5-1, their heroes have blown a 3 games to zip NHL final series lead.

Granted, that must hurt. Still, let’s take care to avoid sweeping the overall scheme of things under the proverbial Zamboni.

On Monday, in Sunrise, FL, Game 7 looms. Small world. From the heart of the Great White North (tar sands and all), Edmonton’s indefatigable Oilers invade Ron DeSantis’s (and Mar-a-Lagoan Donald Trump’s) fossil-fueled, climate-scourged realm.

Here’s the rub. Under the circumstances (to recall one of my late mom’s pet phrases), the fleetingly gleeful Panthers faithful may tend to evince “high class worries,” indeed.

This for two main reasons. Each, in a way, involves climate.

One, like it or not, deny it or not, our globe has been greenhouse gassed. In downtown Miami (36 miles from Sunrise’s Amerant Bank Arena), a trope for our own species’ fossil-fueled fate crops (and flops) up. During “King Tides,” you can see (or try to avert your eyes from) fish, almost out of water, gasping for CO2-rich air on tar-steeped pavement. (Sad.)

Two, along with greenhouse gassing, Trump, DeSantis, and their ilk inflict gaslighting all day long. Call it a toxic political climate. Rather than try to help his constituents cope, Ronnie shoves one and all onto thin ice by (among other things) doing all in his power to memory hole the very word “climate.”

So much for “the land of the free.” Speaking of that phrase (from our National Anthem, of course), the good news is that, like these very words, it was penned in Francis Scott Key’s home state, Maryland. The not-so-good news is that, in Key’s native Frederick, today’s forecast high has been tweaked down (but by just a tad) to 99F.

The bad news: that’s in the shade. Sunshine (slated to prevail pretty much all day) will boost that temp to 105 or so- yielding a heat index, absent shade, (even with relatively low humidity) around 109.

Um, did I mention IT’S STILL HOCKEY SEASON? (To be sure, it’s now summer. But barely.)

In blunt terms, Trump’s and DeSantis’s team has been smashing the body politic’s mouth with their sticks. So far, they’ve barely glanced at (let alone found a home in) the penalty box.

Running the gamut from A to B (in this case, from Joe McCarthy to Kevin), the once-proud Party of Lincoln has “worked the refs” (i.e. “the so-called liberal media,” as Eric Alterman has warned for decades) into abject submission. Results have not been pretty. Much as I hate to say it, better late than never, it behooves all who oppose overtly Orwellian far-right tyranny to drop the gloves (as a last-ditch resort), and (figuratively) start fighting back.

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